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Artist/Maker
John Gardnor
(British, 1729 - 1808)
DateAugust 1802
MediumWatercolor on paper
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 7 3/8 × 11 15/16 in. (18.7 × 30.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection of Hamilton College
Object number1971.6
Not on view
DescriptionJames Campbell's brother, Duncan Campbell, seems to have been the original purchaser of Queens Bay division (St Paul parish) Lots nos. 6-8 on March 19, 1767, which together with Lot 9 became the Argyle estate. By 1773 the owner of all 4 Lots was shown as James Campbell. Having been a member of the Grenada Council since 1775 and of the Tobago Assembly throughout the 1760s and the 1770s, James wielded considerable political influence. He held estates in Grenada, Tobago, Dominica, and St. Vincent, and served in the assemblies of Grenada and Tobago for much of the 1760s and 1770s, and later in the Councils of both colonies (Scots Magazine 59 (1797): 78.). He died at Argyle, Tobago in 1805 (SOURCE: University College London, Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146632335, accessed 3/20/19).
See also 1971.7.
Collections
Additional Details
Exhibition History
2007
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery Hamiton College), "Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Beinecke Collection," June 21-Sept. 16, 2007;
1984
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Gallery III, Hamilton College). "Beinecke Collection," July 10 - Sept. 5, 1984.
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery Hamiton College), "Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Beinecke Collection," June 21-Sept. 16, 2007;
1984
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Gallery III, Hamilton College). "Beinecke Collection," July 10 - Sept. 5, 1984.
Published References
Hough, Samuel J. and Penelope R.O. Hough, THE BEINECKE LESSER ANTILLES COLLECTION AT HAMILTON COLLEGE: A CATOLOGUE OF BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PRINTS, MAPS, AND DRAWINGS (Trustees of Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 1994), 333, catalogue no.P19b.
Signature
Unsigned
Inscribed
Inscribed with watercolor below image: August A. S. South West View of Argyle House. Tobago. Belonging to James Campbell Esq. I+G del.
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